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Offline aceeee

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Show pieces/Repeated notes
on: December 10, 2024, 04:01:28 PM
In around april I have a piano performance where I would like to play some good showy pieces. I am preparing Un Sospiro currently, and I have asked my teacher for some suggestions for a second piece. He wants me to learn a piece with repeated notes to improve my technique. He has recommended me Suggestion Diabolique by Prokofiev, so I was wondering if there are any other good showy pieces that practice repeated notes technique?

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Re: Show pieces/Repeated notes
Reply #1 on: December 10, 2024, 04:27:51 PM
Scarlatti Sonata in d minor K141

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Re: Show pieces/Repeated notes
Reply #2 on: December 10, 2024, 05:07:07 PM
I would try Gottschalk souvenirs d'andalousie.
Sounds difficult, but very accesible.
Liszt HR 6 is different level.
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Re: Show pieces/Repeated notes
Reply #3 on: December 10, 2024, 05:26:57 PM
In around april I have a piano performance where I would like to play some good showy pieces. I am preparing Un Sospiro currently, and I have asked my teacher for some suggestions for a second piece. He wants me to learn a piece with repeated notes to improve my technique. He has recommended me Suggestion Diabolique by Prokofiev, so I was wondering if there are any other good showy pieces that practice repeated notes technique?

Yes - Scarlatti!  agree with brogers70, and there are other sonatas too... 
Suggestion Diabolique is a great suggestion too, imo.  Why do you shy away from it? 
There's Ravel - Alborada del Gracioso, but this is on a whole 'nother level.
Are you familiar with Hummel sonata in f# minor op 81, 3rd movement - a real finger buster with some fascinating passages with repeated notes.

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Re: Show pieces/Repeated notes
Reply #4 on: December 10, 2024, 06:57:34 PM

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Re: Show pieces/Repeated notes
Reply #5 on: December 12, 2024, 08:18:30 AM
Are we talking quickly repeating notes like the pieces suggested above, or repeating chords a la Prokofiev Suggestion Diabolique?
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